Fine catalogue
Fine catalogue
Every offence covered, by category, each with its standard rate, points, driving ban and catalogue number. Not one figure on these pages is typed by hand.
Categories
Speeding
The bands of the speeding table for cars, split by inside and outside built-up areas. A motorway counts as outside — there is no separate motorway table.
20 × band
Trucks and buses
The German fine catalogue bands speeding by vehicle class as well as by location. Heavy vehicles have a ladder of their own, and vehicles carrying dangerous goods or passengers a sharper one still — with a driving ban starting earlier than it does for a car.
36 × band
Phones and electronic devices
The prohibition covers electronic devices generally, not just phones. The tiers differ according to whether the offence endangered anyone or caused damage.
5 × Offence
Red lights
What matters is how long the light had already been red, and whether anyone was endangered or anything damaged. Bicycles and pedestrians have rows of their own.
8 × Offence
Following distance
The gap is not judged in metres but as a fraction of the half-speedometer value. The smaller the fraction and the higher the speed, the sharper the tier.
7 × Offence
Parking and stopping
Most parking offences carry no points — but not all of them. Where obstruction is involved, the row changes and so does the consequence.
10 × Offence
Alcohol and drugs
Escalation follows the entries already on the register, not the reading that was measured. The zero-alcohol rule for new drivers has a row of its own.
5 × substance group
Further offences with no page of their own
- Seat belts · 1
- Child restraints · 4
- Overtaking · 4
- Emergency corridor · 3
- Right of way · 1
- Pedestrian crossings · 1
- Winter tyres · 2
- Roadworthiness test · 3
- Noise · 1
- Documents · 1
- In force
- BKat-Beträge idF 1. BKatVÄndV (09.11.2021) — bis Inkrafttreten eKFV-ÄndV (01.03.2027)
- Source
- BKatV Anlage, Beträge idF 1. BKatVÄndV (BGBl. I 2021 Nr. 74); Punkte-Join FeV Anlage 13
The fine catalogue as a PDF
Every table on these pages in one printable document — speeding for all three vehicle classes, alcohol and drugs, all catalogue rows by category, each with its period in force and its source. Generated when this site is built, from the same data set.
PDF · 89 KB
Overview
What this catalogue is, and what it is made of
The tables on these pages carry 51 offences across 14 categories, in the order the instrument itself uses. Each row shows the standard rate, the points, any standard driving ban, and the row's own catalogue number — which is worth noting down, because it is the fastest way to compare what you are reading here against what is printed on your notice.
Every cell is read out of the reviewed data set at build time. Not one amount, point value or ban length on any of these seven pages is typed by hand, which is a design decision rather than a boast: hand-typed tables drift silently, and a fine table that has drifted is worse than no table.
Research
The points column comes from a different instrument
The fine catalogue has no points column at all. Points come from an annex to the driving-licence ordinance, which lists offences by catalogue number in three groups. Everything you see here in a points column is therefore a join between two instruments, documented as such.
That is also why a zero in the points column means something precise on this site. It means the row appears in none of the three lists — a confirmed absence, checked against all three, rather than a blank we did not fill in.
Details
Reading a row correctly
The amount in a row is a standard rate: what the authority applies in the ordinary case, of an averagely serious offence by someone with no relevant history. It can move. The escalation you will most often see is not severity but repetition, and it works through the register rather than through the table.
The row's rate also decides the procedure. A standard rate up to 55 € is collected as a caution payment, with no fee and no register entry; above that it is a fine notice with a fee, a deadline to object, and a payment deadline. Two rows a few euros apart can therefore behave completely differently on paper.
Background
Which version of the catalogue this is
These amounts are the version in force since 09.11.2021, when the reformed catalogue commenced. Dates here are handled carefully for a specific reason: the consolidated texts published online name the date an amending instrument was signed, which is frequently not the date it takes effect. This site reads the commencement article of the amending instrument itself.
One amendment is already enacted and not yet in force: it integrates micro-mobility vehicles into the catalogue and commences on 01.03.2027. It does not change the general amounts. Our review trigger sits before that date.
What does not exist
Driving uninsured is not in this catalogue
§ 6(1) PflVG
What does not exist
E-scooters have no parking row of their own
BKatV Annex · BGBl. 2026 I no. 32 (art. 5(2))
Process
Two families are not in the catalogue rows at all
Speeding and impairment are handled on their own pages here, and not because they were too big to fit. The instrument itself keeps them elsewhere: speeding lives in an annex table organised by location and band, and impairment lives in a set of families that escalate on prior decisions rather than on a single rate.
So the speeding page renders the two zone tables, and the alcohol and drugs page renders first, second and further columns instead of one amount. Rendering each family out of the schedule it actually lives in is what makes the "nothing typed by hand" claim exact rather than approximately true.
Key figures
How to use this with a notice in front of you
Start from the catalogue number printed on your notice and find that row in the relevant category. Compare four things: the row description, the standard rate, the points, and any ban. If the row matches and the amount matches, the notice is doing what the instrument provides for, and the useful question becomes the deadline rather than the figure.
If the amount is higher than the row, that is not automatically an error — the standard rate is the ordinary case, and prior decisions or specific circumstances can move it. If the amount is higher and no reason is given, that is a concrete question to ask.
What these tables never do is tell you whether the offence happened. They tell you what the instrument provides for the offence you are accused of.
Next step
Speeding
Enter the charged excess from your notice and choose whether it happened inside or outside a built-up area. The result shows the standard rate, the points and any driving ban — and whether the repeat rule applies.
Related offences
Speeding
The bands of the speeding table for cars, split by inside and outside built-up areas. A motorway counts as outside — there is no separate motorway table.
Alcohol and drugs
Escalation follows the entries already on the register, not the reading that was measured. The zero-alcohol rule for new drivers has a row of its own.
Phones and electronic devices
The prohibition covers electronic devices generally, not just phones. The tiers differ according to whether the offence endangered anyone or caused damage.
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